Burglary charge

Burglary charge

BOARDMAN

Police arrested a 22-year-old Youngstown man on a felony burglary charge.

A warrant for Craig Bembry’s arrest was issued March 19.

Bembry, of Clearmont Drive, is accused of stealing a $1,600 Apple computer, $130 silver Tiffany earrings and a $2,000 wedding ring, a $4,380 LCD TV and a $200 DVD player from a Shields Road home Feb. 2.

The victim told police she left Feb. 1 and came back Feb. 2 to find her home had been broken into.

Police found fresh shoe prints outside the residence, and a police dog helped to track down more prints. Police took custody of Bembry at a location on Market Street on Thursday. He is in the Mahoning County jail.

School open house

NORTH LIMA

The South Range School District will host an open-enrollment open house for all prospective students interested in attending South Range Local Schools for the 2014-15 school year at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the K-12 Complex, 11300 Canfield-Columbiana Road.

The intent of the meeting will be to communicate the open-enrollment process with parents and tour the complex. A question-and-answer session will be part of a general meeting at 6 p.m. in the complex auditorium. Parents and students are invited to attend this informational meeting, meet the administrative staff of each building and tour the school.

Applications will be available for those who still need them. Parents are asked to return the completed application along with the required documents in person to the South Range Board of Education.

Woman explains why she fled

YOUNGSTOWN

A woman who fled from police in her car Thursday evening told officers after she was stopped that she did not pull over because she was afraid of going to jail.

Officers on their way to a call in the 3400 block of Hudson Avenue on the South Side about 8:45 p.m. spotted a car driven by 58-year-old Catherine Cline of West Boardman Street weaving in and out of traffic at a high rate of speed. When police tried to pull the car over, the vehicle instead accelerated, reports said.

The car almost lost control making a left turn onto West Myrtle Avenue and was stopped there. Cline was arrested on a charge of failure to comply with the order of a police officer and taken to the Mahoning County jail.

Man files appeal

YOUNGSTOWN (AP)

An Ohio man is appealing a five-year prison term for participating in the enslavement of a mentally disabled woman held for two years with her young child in Northeast Ohio.

Daniel Brown pleaded guilty last year to a single conspiracy charge and agreed to cooperate with the investigation. He was sentenced by Judge Benita Pearson in federal court here earlier this month.

On Friday, Brown appealed the sentence to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati. His attorney, Russell Bensing, says federal guidelines called for a sentence in the range of 21/2 to 31/2 years.

Bensing says he’ll argue that Judge Pearson handed down a stiffer sentence than she should have.

Brown was the first of four people convicted in the case to be sentenced.

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